AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Price

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$ 198.00

$ 1.20 slightly less expensive

$ 199.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points

8204 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points

9603 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points

7740 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points

7593 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points

7628 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points

214.43 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

3.80 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.8 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089

140th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen 7 5800XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800XT beats the Ryzen 7 3700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3700X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.